| MOTIFS | Recurrent or dominant themes or elements in paintings, textile prints, musical works or artists' A...a urges (6) |
| IDEEFIXE | Recurrent or dominant thought; an obsession, a Latin phrase (4,4) |
| MOTIF | Decorative image or dominant theme in artistic work (5) |
| DETAILS | Minor or distinctive elements in paintings, considered separately for close study; military task forces; a person's particulars; or, trivialities (7) |
| OPERA | Musical work, or pea soup? (5) |
| THREEPENNYOPERA | Important date holds up vulgar, out-of-print musical play (10,5) |
| CHRONIC | Being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering (7) |
| THEME | Recurrent or unifying idea |
| RHYTHM | Describing beat, cadence, flow or tempo in music or a harmonious sequence of colours or elements in art, one of the longest words in the English dictionary without vowels (6) |
| NOTATION | A system of written symbols used to represent numbers or elements in e.g. music (8) |
| MOVEMENT | An alliance of artists; a division of a symphony; a gesture; motion, as opposed to inertia or stasis; tempo; or, a timepiece's clock/wheelwork (8) |
| VIRTUOSO | From Italian for "learned, skilful", a musician or artist of consummate technical ability; a connoisseur or dilettante of antiquities, art or curios; or, a dazzling master, prodigy, supremo or whizz i |
| ASPECTS | Distinct features or elements in a problem. (7) |
| ASPECT | A distinct feature or element in a problem. (6) |
| ETHNIC | A population subgroup, within a larger or dominant national group with a common cultural tradition (6) |
| ZEITGEIST | The intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought that typifies the culture of a particular period in time |
| TYCOON | A magnate or dominant figure in business (6) |
| ORGANISE | To form parts or elements of something into a structured whole; coordinate (8) |
| COMPOSE | To make or form by combining things, parts, or elements. (7) |
| SMOCKS | Farmers' traditional linen garments with honeycombing; fishermen or artists' overalls; chemises; or, shifts (6) |
